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Our school just had a boilerplate request to "claim ownership" of our page on https://www.childcare.co.uk/ They look pretty legit but has anyone else had this or any comment?

Hmmm thanks Nick, but I still can't see anything in any server log relating to the bad logon I just tried.

Thanks, that's really helpful. However we're running an oldish version of HAP+ and have not enabled the Logon Tracker, or indeed linked it to SQL. So just curious what a bad logon here actually bounces off - obviously it has to authenticate via our LDAP but the analysis I run for bad network logons (via Log Parser pointing at DS event logs) doesn't show the test bad logon I just tried on HAP...

Where would I find a record of someone trying to log into HAP+ with the wrong password? Can't seem to find anything in either the IIS log or the domain controllers event logs... And am I right in thinking it locks out such attempts quite quickly? Where's that set?

We've just had a renewal quote for our OVS-ES, urging us to buy 3 years in one go rather than 1, in order to avoid an imminent MS price hike of "33.5% from 1st July". Just to check, how does this square with the MoU discussion, one of whose recommendations seemed to be that to keep down costs as much as possible it's currently best to take out a 1 year, then another 1 year, then a 3 year agreement? Sorry, it's been a long day...

I fixed it in the end - or rather I did some more stuff and it ended up updating OK, which is not quite the same thing... I suspected its *nearly* installing and then failing was something to do with its creating a restore point rather than the update itself, or something corrupted or cached in the update mechanism. So I cleared out a load of old restore points, then did a Disk Cleanup including System Files, then rebooted. Because of the Cleanup the reboot took about 30 minutes (!) with the usual "don't turn off" message, but once logged on again I was finally able to install KB3148198 with no problems.

Got a standalone machine which repeatedly fails to install the recent KB3148198 (Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7). Keeps getting almost to the very end of the progress bar then fails with Error 800736b3. Absolutely fine with every previous update over 5 years. So far tried downloading the patch direct, System File Checker, Windows Update Troubleshooter, Windows Systems Update Readiness Tool, animal sacrifice etc etc. Any ideas before I throw it off a cliff?

Cheers, will take a look

Having fun trying to delete an old duplicate user from SIMS - see screenshot. It's picked up they're still linked to some data, a "Workplace" field set to our school name. But where is that actually from? Doesn't ring any bells with me...

The MLS one in this screenshot is superfluous so I'd like to just uninstall it? The others (and of course, the main install) are fine.

Ah, right, yes. Related : If I want to delete a job (an export for a long-defunct library catalogue system) is the correct way to simply uninstall the relevant "Groupcall Xporter, " in Control Panel?

We don't actually want to change anything and are not given to hacking around with things. Unless we need to, of course Just curious as job config is so opaque compared to, say, Task Scheduler.

Probably being tremendously thick here , but how (if at all) does one edit a Groupcall Xporter job? I know the management console shows next and last run for jobs, but what if (say) I wanted something to run less often or at a different time?

A post for info : We had a PC recently that suddenly became grindingly slow, to the extent that most logon services would fail, explorer.exe would crash etc. Hardware absolutely fine, network connection too. Most confusingly, the machine was not really "slow" - it wasn't actually busy at all. We noticed lots of 7034 errors in the event log for the WMI service as it repeatedly started and stopped. Turned out that was the culprit : a corrupt WMI repository. Cleared out "C:\Windows\System32\wbem\Repository", restarted the service (which recreates that folder's contents), rebooted and all was well. Just thought I'd post in case it helps someone - we were totally baffled for a while!

@speckytecky : We have AV but were looking at sticking MBAM on either our admin stations, or our servers, or both, as "belt and braces". A few questions below if you have a moment as I found MBAM's site a tad confusing regarding business/consumer/versions etc. Where did you get MBAM from? Did you just get 10 ordinary "consumer" subscriptions or is there some kind of business licence? Are you running 10 separate installs or is there some kind of overall console? Thanks.

We use Heritage Cirqa

Thanks, both. Ballpark costs?

Anyone using either Parents Evening System - Online Parents Evening Booking Software or Parents' Evening Booking System - Software for Schools? They look quite similar - any comments on comparitive functionality, ease of deployment or cost?

Absolutely. I've just updated my wodge of SIMS gumf

Yes, we use a proxy. So on my workstation I have the proxy details under Internet Options > Connections > LAN settings > Proxy server. Our proxy uses port 8080. Under Advanced I have IPs for things like local servers, printers etc. Foolishly I didn't have the IP of the SIMS server, whose default DMS port is also 8080. @matt40k : Apart from my "gotcha", is there any other advantage to using 1077 rather than 8080?

Do you mean a Capita document or the kind of "How to avoid hours of pain" notes we all tend to compile?

Just in case it helps anyone : After a (successful) SQL2014 migration, SIMS client was taking 65 seconds to log in on my own workstation (fine elsewhere, 5 seconds or so). I just spent 2 days trying absolutely everything I could think of, checking file settings, using resource monitor, using process monitor, uninstalling junk, stopping services, checking UPS voltage, defragging, reinstalling, profile cleaning, memory tests, you name it. And reading dozens of threads on here, of course... The answer? I needed to set the server's IP as a proxy exception in Internet Options, as that's what the Document Server uses. ARGH But hey, it's fixed.

Anyone seen this when firing up ER from inside FMS? If you click OK it works fine and everything is there. Just a bit odd?

Sorted, in the end. A few hours with Process Monitor prompted us to look in the Registry. That prompted us to check out the version of SQL. That showed us that our old SQL2008 was 64bit and our newly migrated SQL2014 was... you've guessed it, 32bit. Our LEA gave us the wrong SQL installer. Sigh... So we detached everything, removed 32bit, installed 64bit, reattached and all is well. Fun times, hope it helps someone else!

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